Working here

I'm a production executive at ITV, I work in the non-scripted department for ITV studios. I work with the entertainment development team which means that I budget their ideas once there's a spark of interest from somewhere I work with them to get together all of the figures, which is quite interesting because it's working on programmes that absolutely haven't been seen before, so I get first look at what we're up to which is great. I also work with the global entertainment formats consultant, assist her in getting the formats information out to the various companies that decide to make our formats, not just our own production companies but our formats get sold all over the world. We've also just sent somebody out to China a couple of times because there's a Chinese version of 'Surprise Surprise' which is in production at the moment. I came in on a three month contract and I've just enjoyed the people that I've worked with - it is the people that make the difference here.

I work in ITV online and on-demand in the product strategy and audience engagement department, that's a bit of a mouthful, but I'll explain - it;s part about online product strategy, which is what we're going to do with our online products in the medium-term so in 1 to 3 years, but then it's also partly about audience engagement, which is how do we engage with our viewers through say social media or what we might provide to them on the website or various other platforms.

My career path at ITV is quite interesting and different. I joined ITV three years ago as a developer, that's a programmer, so my day job was very much about technology, I was neck-deep in computer code, but soon after joining I became very interested in product development which is much more business focused, it's about what we do with our products and I was very lucky to have the support of my manager in forging a new path in this direction. The atmosphere at ITV is great at the moment, we're obviously in the middle of a transformational period we've just recently acquired a new chief executive and chairman who are not traditionally from the broadcasting industry, so they're bringing a very different thinking to things at ITV and that's certainly means lots of exciting development in online and on-demand where I work.